Several aspiring police officers who were training in a police college have experienced a really tragic fate after militants unleashed horror on them.

Up to about 60 people training to be police officers have been killed in an attack on a police training college in the city of Quetta in Balochistan province, Pakistan.

According to Aljazeera, an outlawed group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claims responsibility for raid on facility in Quetta where 200 cadets were stationed.

The announcement on Tuesday came at the end of a military counter-operation.

Officials revealed that about 200 trainees were stationed at the facility when the attack occurred late on Monday, and some were taken hostage during the attack, which lasted five hours.

Mir Sarfraz Ahmed Bugti, home minister of Balochistan, said early on Tuesday that five to six armed men attacked a dormitory inside the training facility while cadets rested and slept.

More than a hundred people were injured, he said. The death toll could rise as many cadets were seriously injured.

The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) claimed responsibility for the attack. The group, which has been outlawed by the government, has been involved in past attacks on security forces.

“Over the past few years LeJ has been targeted by the military, especially in Punjab province where its leadership was eliminated. And this attack surprised many that it still survives in some form,” writer and columnist Raza Rumi said.

An emergency was declared in all government hospitals of the provincial capital of Balochistan, with the injured shifted to the Civil Hospital Quetta and the Bolan Medical Complex.